Get Pregnant. Lose Your Job. Welcome to Catholic School Reality.: You might think that employers these days are way too subtle to fire a female employee for getting pregnant, and admitting to that as the reason. But you'd be wrong, especially as it relates to Catholic schools. The latest in what has been a string of cases involving female teachers at Catholic institutions is unlikely to be the last, as courts grapple with whether it is permissible for religiously-affiliated institutions to fire teachers who do not uphold the Catholic principle of abstaining from premarital sex. The reality that most institutions focus solely on pregnant women (who alone are capable of publicly manifesting their non-compliance) may ultimately doom those institutions that take such punitive steps, as it is clearly sex discrimination to punish only women who engage in premarital sex.

When a Title VII plaintiff can show that firing and hiring decisions were made by different decisionmakers, she need not show as part of her prima facie case that she was replaced by someone outside her protected class; thus, summary judgment for defendant-employer is vacated as to claims of sex and pregnancy discrimination.

Summary judgment for defendant on plaintiff's Title VII sex discrimination case is reversed, where defendant is responsible for providing its employees with nondiscriminatory working conditions, including protection from discriminatory acts by an independent contractor.

In a disability discrimination case brought by a diabetic plaintiff under Texas disability laws, summary judgment for defendant is reversed and partial summary judgment granted for plaintiff where the record showed defendant discriminated against plaintiff as a matter of law.